John 18:27

Literal Standard Version

Again, therefore, Peter denied, and immediately a rooster crowed.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Peter denied it again. Immediately a rooster crowed.

King James Version (1611)
Peter then denied againe, and immediatly the cocke crew.

King James Version
Peter then denied again: and immediately the cock crew.

English Standard Version
Peter again denied it, and at once a rooster crowed.

New American Standard Bible
Peter then denied it again, and immediately a rooster crowed.

New Century Version
Again Peter said it wasn't true. At once a rooster crowed.

Amplified Bible
So Peter denied it again, and immediately a rooster crowed.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Peter then denied it again, and immediately a rooster crowed.

Legacy Standard Bible
Peter then denied it again, and immediately a rooster crowed.

Berean Standard Bible
Peter denied it once more, and immediately a rooster crowed.

Contemporary English Version
Once more Peter denied it, and right then a rooster crowed.

Complete Jewish Bible
So again Kefa denied it, and instantly a rooster crowed.

Darby Translation
Peter denied therefore again, and immediately [the] cock crew.

Easy-to-Read Version
But again Peter said, "No, I was not with him!" As soon as he said this, a rooster crowed.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Peter then denied againe, and immediatly the cocke crewe.

George Lamsa Translation
Simon again denied; and at that very hour the cock crew.

Good News Translation
Again Peter said "No"—and at once a rooster crowed.

Lexham English Bible
So Peter denied it again, and immediately a rooster crowed.

Literal Translation
Then again Peter denied, and immediately a cock crowed.

American Standard Version
Peter therefore denied again: and straightway the cock crew.

Bible in Basic English
Then again Peter said, No. And straight away a cock gave its cry.

Hebrew Names Version
Kefa therefore denied again, and immediately the rooster crowed.

International Standard Version
Peter again denied it, and immediately a rooster crowed.Matthew 26:74; Mark 14:72; Luke 22:60; John 13:38;">[xr]

Etheridge Translation
And again Shemun denied. And in the same hour the cock crowed.

Murdock Translation
And again Simon denied: and at that moment the cock crew.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Peter therefore denyed againe: And immediatly the Cocke crewe.

English Revised Version
Peter therefore denied again: and straightway the cock crew.

World English Bible
Peter therefore denied again, and immediately the rooster crowed.

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
Peter denied again, and immediately the cock crew.

Weymouth's New Testament
Once more Peter denied it, and immediately a cock crowed.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And Petre eftsoone denyede, and anoon the cok crew.

Update Bible Version
Peter therefore denied again: and right away the rooster crowed.

Webster's Bible Translation
Peter then denied again, and immediately the cock crowed.

New English Translation
Then Peter denied it again, and immediately a rooster crowed.

New King James Version
Peter then denied again; and immediately a rooster crowed.

New Living Translation
Again Peter denied it. And immediately a rooster crowed.

New Life Bible
Again Peter lied and said he did not know Jesus. At once a rooster crowed.

New Revised Standard
Again Peter denied it, and at that moment the cock crowed.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Again, therefore, Peter denied. And, straightway, a cock crew.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Again therefore Peter denied: and immediately the cock crew.

Revised Standard Version
Peter again denied it; and at once the cock crowed.

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
Peter denyed it agayne: and immediatly the cocke crewe.

Young's Literal Translation
again, therefore, Peter denied, and immediately a cock crew.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Then Peter denyed agayne. And immediatly the cock crew.

Mace New Testament (1729)
but Peter denied this too, and immediately the cock crew.

THE MESSAGE
Again, Peter denied it. Just then a rooster crowed.

Simplified Cowboy Version
Pete denied knowing Jesus a third time. At that moment, a rooster began to crow.

Contextual Overview

¹³and they led Him away to Annas first, for he was father-in-law of Caiaphas, who was chief priest of that year, ¹⁴and Caiaphas was he who gave counsel to the Jews that it is good for one man to perish for the people. ¹⁵And following Jesus was Simon Peter, and the other disciple, and that disciple was known to the chief priest, and he entered with Jesus into the hall of the chief priest, ¹⁶and Peter was standing at the door outside, therefore the other disciple who was known to the chief priest went forth, and he spoke to the doorkeeper, and he brought in Peter. ¹⁷Then the maid, the doorkeeper, says to Peter, "Are you also of the disciples of this Man?" He says, "I am not"; ¹⁸and the servants and the officers were standing, having made a fire of coals, because it was cold, and they were warming themselves, and Peter was standing with them, and warming himself. ¹⁹The chief priests, therefore, questioned Jesus concerning His disciples, and concerning His teaching; ²⁰Jesus answered him, "I spoke freely to the world, I always taught in a synagogue, and in the temple, where the Jews always come together; and I spoke nothing in secret; ²¹why do you question Me? Question those having heard what I spoke to them; behold, these have known what I said." ²²And He having said these things, one of the officers standing by gave Jesus a slap, saying, "Thus do You answer the chief priest?"

Bible Verse Review
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and: John 13:38, Matthew 26:34, Matthew 26:74, Matthew 26:75, Mark 14:30, Mark 14:68, Mark 14:71, Mark 14:72, Luke 22:34, Luke 22:60-62

Reciprocal: Matthew 26:73 - Surely Mark 14:70 - a little Luke 22:57 - he denied Luke 22:59 - confidently John 21:17 - the third

Cross-References

Genesis 2:7
And YHWH God forms the man—dust from the ground, and breathes into his nostrils breath of life, and the man becomes a living creature.

Genesis 3:19
by the sweat of your face you eat bread until your return to the ground, for you have been taken out of it, for dust you [are], and to dust you return."

Genesis 18:1
And YHWH appears to him among the oaks of Mamre, and he is sitting at the opening of the tent, about the heat of the day;

Genesis 18:2
and he lifts up his eyes and looks, and behold, three men standing by him, and he sees, and runs to meet them from the opening of the tent, and bows himself toward the earth,

Genesis 18:6
And Abraham hurries toward the tent, to Sarah, and says, "Hurry three measures of flour-meal, knead, and make cakes";

Genesis 18:8
and he takes butter and milk, and the son of the herd which he has prepared, and sets before them; and he is standing by them under the tree, and they eat.

Genesis 18:30
And he says, "Please let it not be displeasing to the Lord, and I speak: perhaps there are found there thirty?" And He says, "I do not do [it], if I find there thirty."

Genesis 18:32
And he says, "Please let it not be displeasing to the Lord, and I speak only this time: perhaps there are found there ten?" And He says, "I do not destroy [it], because of the ten."

Ezra 9:6
and say, "O my God, I have been ashamed, and have blushed to lift up, O my God, my face to You, for our iniquities have increased over the head, and our guilt has become great to the heavens.

Job 4:19
Also—the inhabitants of houses of clay || (Whose foundation [is] in the dust, || They bruise them before a moth).

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Peter then denied again,.... A third time, as the Ethiopic version renders it; and that, according to other evangelists, with cursing and swearing; for now he was more affrighted than before, lest should he be taken up, and it be proved upon him, that he was the person that cut off Malchus's ear, he should be sentenced to a fine, or it may be some capital punishment. The fine for plucking a man's ears, and which some understand of plucking them off, was four hundred "zuzim" s, or, pence; which, as they answer to Roman pence, amount to twelve pounds ten shillings; a sum of money Peter perhaps could not have raised, without great difficulty: and therefore, that it might be believed he was not a disciple of Christ, so not the man; he swears in a profane manner, and imprecates the judgments of God upon him:

and immediately the cock crew; the second time; which was a signal by which he might call to remembrance, what Christ had said to him; that before the cock crowed twice, he should deny him thrice,

Mark 14:72. It was now early in the morning, about three o'clock, or somewhat after.

s Misn. Bava Kama, c. 8, sect. 6. Vid. L'Empereur in ib.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 27. And - the cock crew. — Peter denied our Lord three times: -

Peter's first denial.

I. This took place, when he was without, or beneath, in the hall of Caiaphas's house. He was not in the higher part where Christ stood before the high priest; but without that division of the hall, and in the lower part with the servants and officers, at the fire kindled in the midst of the hall, John 18:16; John 18:18; and the girl who kept the door had entered into the hall, where she charged Peter.

Peter's second denial.

II. This was in a short time after the first, Luke 22:58. Having once denied his Master, he naturally retired from the place where his accuser was to the vestibule of the hall, Matthew 26:71, and it was the time of the first cock-crowing, or soon after midnight. After remaining here a short time, perhaps an hour, another girl sees him, and says to them who were standing by in the vestibule, that he was one of them. Peter, to avoid this charge, withdraws into the hall, and warms himself. The girl, and those to whom she had spoken, follow him; the communication between the two places being immediate. Here a man enforces the charge of the girl, according to Luke; and others urge it, according to St. John; and Peter denies Jesus vehemently.

Peter's third denial.

III. He was now in the hall, and also within sight of Jesus, though at such a distance from him that Jesus could not know what passed, but in a supernatural way. And, about an hour after his second denial, those who stood by founded a third charge against him, on his being a Galilean, which St. Luke says, Luke 22:59, one in particular strongly affirmed; and which, according to John, John 18:26, was supported by one of Malchus's relations. This occasioned a more vehement denial than before, and immediately the cock crew the second time, which is eminently called αλεκτοροφωνια. The first denial may have been between our twelve and one; and the second between our two and three.

At the time of the third denial, Luke 22:61 proves that Jesus was in the same room with Peter. We must farther observe that Matthew, Matthew 26:57, lays the scene of Peter's denials in the house of Caiaphas: whereas John, John 18:15-23, seems to intimate that these transactions took place in the house of Annas; but this difficulty arises from the injudicious insertion of the particle ουν, therefore, in John 18:24, which should be omitted, on the authority of ADES, Mt. BH, many others; besides some versions, and some of the primitive fathers. Griesbach has left it out of the text. See Bishop Newcome's Harm. notes, p. 48.

The time of Peter's denials happened during the space of the third Roman watch, or that division of the night, between twelve and three, which is called αλεκτοροφωνια, or cock-crowing, Mark 13:35. Concerning the nature and progress of Peter's denial, see the notes on Matthew 26:58; Matthew 26:69-75.